Chippewa Remedies for Chest Pain and Lung Trouble: Goldenrod Root, Blackberry with Bur Oak, Cup Plant, and Four Woods Steeped Together (Densmore, 1928)

Rows under "Lung trouble" and "Hemorrhages from lungs". Recorded use, not medical advice: chest pain and coughing up blood are emergencies today (ours).

Boil goldenrod root (Euthamia graminifolia) and drink the decoction; it was said to be particularly good for pain in the chest.

Boil blackberry root and bur oak inner bark together and drink. The oak bark alone was used for cramps.

A decoction of the root, used for bleeding from the lungs and for pain in the back and chest with a tendency to consumption.

Boil 1 goldenrod root (Solidago rigidiuscula) in a quart (0.95 L) of water. "Take it cold." Used to check a sudden bleeding from the lungs.

Steep chokecherry inner bark, hazel root, white oak root and the heart of ironwood together and drink it.

From Frances Densmore, *Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians*, **44th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology** (1928), pp. 340-341 (checked on the archive.org scan usesofplantsbych00dens). Chippewa remedies were mostly Midewiwin knowledge, shared so a record would survive. Left out: blue cohosh and pasque-flower remedies (toxic plants) and one with unnamed ingredients. Metric and safety lines are ours. Recorded use, not medical advice.